Over the Moon

Name: Over the Moon
Brand: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
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English

By (author): Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker was born in Pakistan, grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow, was adopted by India and married into Wales. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Over the Moon is her fifth book from Bloodaxe. These are poems of joy and sadness, of mourning and celebration: poems about music and feet, church bells, beds, cafe tables, bad language and sudden silence. In contrast with her previous work written amidst the hubbub of India, these new poems are mostly set in London, where she has built a new life with - and since the death of - her husband Simon Powell. See more

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Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
Publication Date: 25 Sep 2014
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781780371207

About Imtiaz Dharker

Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow was adopted by India and married into Wales. She is an accomplished artist and documentary film-maker and has published six books with Bloodaxe Postcards from god (including Purdah) (1997) I Speak for the Devil (2001) The terrorist at my table (2006) Leaving Fingerprints (2009) Over the Moon (2014) and Luck Is the Hook (2018). All her poetry collections are illustrated with her drawings which form an integral part of the books; she is one of very few poet-artists to work in this way. She was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry for 2014 presented to her by The Queen in spring 2015 and has also received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Over the Moon was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2014. Her poems are on the British GCSE and A Level English syllabus and she reads with other poets at Poetry Live! events all over the country to more than 25000 students a year. She has had a dozen solo exhibitions of drawings in India London Leeds New York and Hong Kong. She scripts and directs films many of them for non-government organisations in India working in the area of shelter education and health for women and children. In 2015 she appeared on the iconic BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs.